Individual men who are separate from each other, while they differ both in their own essences and in their own forms ... nevertheless agree in this: that they are men. I do not say that they agree in man, since a man is not any thing unless it is a distinct man. Rather I say in being a man. Being a man is not a man nor any thing if we consider the matter carefully.... We mean merely that they are men and do not differ at all in this regard, that is, not in as much as they are men, although we call on no essence....
...Now it seems we should stay away from accepting the agreement among things according to what is not any thing — it's as though we were to unite in nothing things that now exist! — namely, when we say that this [human] and that one agree in the human status, that is to say: in that they are human. But we mean precisely that they are human and don't differ in this regard — let me repeat: [they don't differ] in that they are human, although we're not appealing to any thing [in this explanation]....
Logica ‘ingredientibus’, Pierre Abelard du Pallet, d. 1142
...separate or separated?
31 October 2005
28 October 2005
looking for answers...
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
~ Albert Einstein
...will someone let me know if they find an answer?
... and then ask me if I trust it?
~ Albert Einstein
...will someone let me know if they find an answer?
... and then ask me if I trust it?
25 October 2005
a temptation...
Now I am tempted to say that the right expression in language for the miracle of the existence of the world, though it is not any proposition in language, is the existence of language itself. But what then does it mean to be aware of this miracle at some times and not at other times? For all I have said by shifting the expression of the miraculous from an expression by means of language to the expression by the existence of language, all I have said is again that we cannot express what we want to express and that all we can say about the absolute miraculous remains nonsense.
Lecture on Ethics, Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1929
...and language exists?
Lecture on Ethics, Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1929
...and language exists?
24 October 2005
limited consideration...
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
Arthur Schopenhauer, World as Will and Representation, vol. i, pg. 273, (E.F.J. Payne Translation)
...actual? ...knowable?
Arthur Schopenhauer, World as Will and Representation, vol. i, pg. 273, (E.F.J. Payne Translation)
...actual? ...knowable?
23 October 2005
what a concept...
Man is the place at which and through which everything that is real exists for us at all. To fail to be human would mean to slip into nothingness.
Karl Jaspers, "On My Philosophy," Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre, edited by Walter Kaufman.
...but, what is real?
Karl Jaspers, "On My Philosophy," Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre, edited by Walter Kaufman.
...but, what is real?
19 October 2005
the abode...
Language is the house of Being.
Letter on Humanism, Martin Heidegger, 1947, p. 217
...who created the house?
Letter on Humanism, Martin Heidegger, 1947, p. 217
...who created the house?
11 October 2005
a dialogue...
I have been having with myself.
There is, despite evidence to the contrary, a method to what I have been posting. It is both existential and chaotic and it is not. Until this point, I have not made an entry of my own on this blog with the exception of comments about the contents of a post or a question about some entry's gist. That is until today....
Though I had not intended to write an entry of my own at this point, because of some things happening in my life, the following is a dialogue I have been having with myself and I find a need to include it in this blog.
I had a major breakthrough on my way home from work about my "almost, probable, certain future." I feel like I'm "stuck" at work because of "external circumstances," eg not having the connections that others have, the plethora of a club of administrators who take care of each other first, or being too qualified compared to others, when, actually, I am making it my "almost, probable, certain future" based on the past. I'm not believing that anything is possible because the past is in front of me not behind me. There should not be an almost, probable, certain future; there are only endless possibilities because nothing exists in the future except things I create. The past has already been created and exists no more.
No matter how many times I tell this to myself [and it has been for years and years] it is difficult to always keep it in perspective.
I do not believe that anything exists. Anything. Existence is predicated on language. Everything must be distinguished by language. Language is what makes anything exist because I name it as such, yet I still can't prove that anything exists.
We have a set of common distinctions about objects. We call a chair a chair because of the language we use to describe it or, rather, what language we decided to use to describe its existence.
It is a task teaching kids how to read because language itself is a creation. A creation that is actually foreign to the functioning of the brain processes. No one has ever been able to explain how we learn to read. There are many theories that explain the various steps but none that explain how. Yet, we are driven to learn how to read - and write.
The artist George Seurat is attributed with a phrase: "A blank canvas. So many possibilities." Endless possibilities not based on an "almost, probable, certain future" but on nothing that previously existed on the blank canvas. What is interesting is that Seurat's art was known as pointilism, a blending of dots that are so close together that they give depth, color, perspective and emotion. In addition, there is a scientific and mathematical basis to this form of art since it deals with an optical mixture based on light. This explanation, of course, is based on the distinctions we make based on language that is a creation itself and may not exist.
So, if "nothing exists," or the antithesis that is an "almost, probable, certain future" does not exist, we have to understand that we have the possibility of creating anything and everything from nothing.
so many possibilities...
There is, despite evidence to the contrary, a method to what I have been posting. It is both existential and chaotic and it is not. Until this point, I have not made an entry of my own on this blog with the exception of comments about the contents of a post or a question about some entry's gist. That is until today....
Though I had not intended to write an entry of my own at this point, because of some things happening in my life, the following is a dialogue I have been having with myself and I find a need to include it in this blog.
I had a major breakthrough on my way home from work about my "almost, probable, certain future." I feel like I'm "stuck" at work because of "external circumstances," eg not having the connections that others have, the plethora of a club of administrators who take care of each other first, or being too qualified compared to others, when, actually, I am making it my "almost, probable, certain future" based on the past. I'm not believing that anything is possible because the past is in front of me not behind me. There should not be an almost, probable, certain future; there are only endless possibilities because nothing exists in the future except things I create. The past has already been created and exists no more.
No matter how many times I tell this to myself [and it has been for years and years] it is difficult to always keep it in perspective.
I do not believe that anything exists. Anything. Existence is predicated on language. Everything must be distinguished by language. Language is what makes anything exist because I name it as such, yet I still can't prove that anything exists.
We have a set of common distinctions about objects. We call a chair a chair because of the language we use to describe it or, rather, what language we decided to use to describe its existence.
It is a task teaching kids how to read because language itself is a creation. A creation that is actually foreign to the functioning of the brain processes. No one has ever been able to explain how we learn to read. There are many theories that explain the various steps but none that explain how. Yet, we are driven to learn how to read - and write.
The artist George Seurat is attributed with a phrase: "A blank canvas. So many possibilities." Endless possibilities not based on an "almost, probable, certain future" but on nothing that previously existed on the blank canvas. What is interesting is that Seurat's art was known as pointilism, a blending of dots that are so close together that they give depth, color, perspective and emotion. In addition, there is a scientific and mathematical basis to this form of art since it deals with an optical mixture based on light. This explanation, of course, is based on the distinctions we make based on language that is a creation itself and may not exist.
So, if "nothing exists," or the antithesis that is an "almost, probable, certain future" does not exist, we have to understand that we have the possibility of creating anything and everything from nothing.
so many possibilities...
10 October 2005
jumping together...
"The Consilience of Inductions takes place when an Induction, obtained from one class of facts, coincides with an Induction obtained from another different class. Thus Consilience is a test of the truth of the Theory in which it occurs."
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, William Whewell, 1840
...are all things connected?
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, William Whewell, 1840
...are all things connected?
09 October 2005
definitions...
Absolute nonexistence: The absence of existence, the absence of nothingness, and the absence of absence. It is what is not being referred-to under any circumstances. Its definition is that which cannot be referred-to, named, or defined. It is the non-state to which everything including nothingness is attracted.
Chaos Theory: The study and mathematical modeling of complexity in natural systems.
Complexity: The characteristic of a system endowing it with the capacity for infinite variation of motion and form.
Dis-equilibrium: A disturbance in absolute nonexistence. It is a result of the fundamental asymmetry between nothingness, absolute nonexistence and temporal existence.
Disordered Complexity: Random chaotic motion within a system either moving towards or coming from ordered complexity.
Energy: Motion; which is the detectable change in spatial relationships between the components of a given system and the means of redistribution of space and matter. Energy is also the measure of all the forms of repulsion and attraction between space and matter (known as potential energy).
Environment: The immediate surroundings of a given system from which the system comes, upon which it is dependent, and to which it will return its component parts.
Evolution: The universal progressive pattern of the exchange of disordered complexity for ordered complexity in all natural systems. It is the orderly increasing delineation of a system from its environment.
Existence: The set of circumstances in which it is possible for humans to maintain sentient consciousness of self and time. Existence is independent of temporality by virtue of its infinite nature except in the context of its temporal phase (see Temporal Existence).
Force: That which initiates or changes motion.
Gravity: The space/time gradient caused by the bending of space/time towards mass/density. It is therefore also the measure of mass/density (referred to as the specific gravitational density of a given area of matter).
Matter: The absence of space. It is attracted to space and repelled by itself.
Mass: The aspect of matter detectable by measurement.
Motion: The detectable change in spatial relationships between the components of a given system. Also see “energy” (above).
Nothingness: A state of perfectly uniform static equilibrium constituting relative nonexistence. A state that exists relative to absolute nonexistence but does not exist relative to temporal existence.
Ordered Complexity: A consistent pattern of arrangement of the elements of a system in relation to each other that is infinitely variable and that accrues from or dissolves to the disordered phase of those elements (see Disordered Complexity).
Particle: A discrete unit of matter with consistent characteristics unless divided or fused.
Physics: The study of motion
Relative Nonexistence: Nothingness; a state of uniform, static equilibrium undetectable by humans due to the absence of spatial/temporal dynamics.
Space: The absence of matter. It is attracted to matter and repelled by itself.
Stimulus: An electrochemical alteration of the dynamic basil or "resting" equilibrium of an organic system
System: Elements interacting with each other and delineated from their surroundings.
Temporal existence: The constraint of infinite time and space within which human beings can exist. A state delineated from nothingness by virtue of non-uniformity and whose components are attracted to nothingness. It is the dynamic phase of existence whereas nothingness is non-temporal and non-dynamic.
Time: is the measure of the universal progression of uniformity between matter and space accomplished by counting equal, standardized divisions of a cyclical system of regular motion.
Universe: The manifestation of temporal existence – composed of matter, energy, space, and time. It is anything that is or ever will be detectable by human beings. It is the macro-system of which all natural systems are a sub-set.
Nothingness Theory: The connection between the evolution of the universe and human thought, Corey Kaup, 1989 – 2005
...existentionally chaotic improvability?
Chaos Theory: The study and mathematical modeling of complexity in natural systems.
Complexity: The characteristic of a system endowing it with the capacity for infinite variation of motion and form.
Dis-equilibrium: A disturbance in absolute nonexistence. It is a result of the fundamental asymmetry between nothingness, absolute nonexistence and temporal existence.
Disordered Complexity: Random chaotic motion within a system either moving towards or coming from ordered complexity.
Energy: Motion; which is the detectable change in spatial relationships between the components of a given system and the means of redistribution of space and matter. Energy is also the measure of all the forms of repulsion and attraction between space and matter (known as potential energy).
Environment: The immediate surroundings of a given system from which the system comes, upon which it is dependent, and to which it will return its component parts.
Evolution: The universal progressive pattern of the exchange of disordered complexity for ordered complexity in all natural systems. It is the orderly increasing delineation of a system from its environment.
Existence: The set of circumstances in which it is possible for humans to maintain sentient consciousness of self and time. Existence is independent of temporality by virtue of its infinite nature except in the context of its temporal phase (see Temporal Existence).
Force: That which initiates or changes motion.
Gravity: The space/time gradient caused by the bending of space/time towards mass/density. It is therefore also the measure of mass/density (referred to as the specific gravitational density of a given area of matter).
Matter: The absence of space. It is attracted to space and repelled by itself.
Mass: The aspect of matter detectable by measurement.
Motion: The detectable change in spatial relationships between the components of a given system. Also see “energy” (above).
Nothingness: A state of perfectly uniform static equilibrium constituting relative nonexistence. A state that exists relative to absolute nonexistence but does not exist relative to temporal existence.
Ordered Complexity: A consistent pattern of arrangement of the elements of a system in relation to each other that is infinitely variable and that accrues from or dissolves to the disordered phase of those elements (see Disordered Complexity).
Particle: A discrete unit of matter with consistent characteristics unless divided or fused.
Physics: The study of motion
Relative Nonexistence: Nothingness; a state of uniform, static equilibrium undetectable by humans due to the absence of spatial/temporal dynamics.
Space: The absence of matter. It is attracted to matter and repelled by itself.
Stimulus: An electrochemical alteration of the dynamic basil or "resting" equilibrium of an organic system
System: Elements interacting with each other and delineated from their surroundings.
Temporal existence: The constraint of infinite time and space within which human beings can exist. A state delineated from nothingness by virtue of non-uniformity and whose components are attracted to nothingness. It is the dynamic phase of existence whereas nothingness is non-temporal and non-dynamic.
Time: is the measure of the universal progression of uniformity between matter and space accomplished by counting equal, standardized divisions of a cyclical system of regular motion.
Universe: The manifestation of temporal existence – composed of matter, energy, space, and time. It is anything that is or ever will be detectable by human beings. It is the macro-system of which all natural systems are a sub-set.
Nothingness Theory: The connection between the evolution of the universe and human thought, Corey Kaup, 1989 – 2005
...existentionally chaotic improvability?
04 October 2005
une lai celtique...
La grandeur humaine
Est une ombre vaine
Qui fuit;
Une ame mondaine
A perte d'haleine
La suit.
translation:
The greatness of man
Is a vain shade
Which flees;
A fashionable heart
A loss of breath
Follows It.
...a fleeing or fleeing thought?
[A "lai" ("lait" in Irish Celt) is based on a single thought expressed with an octosyllabic format in most cases. It's origins are from 12th century tradition.]
Est une ombre vaine
Qui fuit;
Une ame mondaine
A perte d'haleine
La suit.
translation:
The greatness of man
Is a vain shade
Which flees;
A fashionable heart
A loss of breath
Follows It.
...a fleeing or fleeing thought?
[A "lai" ("lait" in Irish Celt) is based on a single thought expressed with an octosyllabic format in most cases. It's origins are from 12th century tradition.]
03 October 2005
education from educe...
Education gives to Man nothing which he might no educe out of himself; it gives him that which he might educe out of himself, only quicker and more easily. In the same way too, Revelation gives nothing to the human species, which the human reason left to itself might not attain; only it has given, and still gives to it, the most important of these things earlier.
The Education of The Human Race, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1774–1778.
...nothing?
The Education of The Human Race, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1774–1778.
...nothing?
02 October 2005
an assumption...
NOTHING can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good without qualification, except a Good Will. Intelligence wit, judgment, and the other talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as qualities of temperament, are undoubtedly good and desirable in many respects; but these gifts of nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous if the will which is to make use of them, and which, therefore, constitutes what is called character, is not good. It is the same with the gifts of fortune.
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, "First Section: Transition from the Common Rational Knowledge of Morality to the Philosophical," Immanuel Kant, 1785.
...nothing = moral + (good - evil) or moral + (evil - good)?
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, "First Section: Transition from the Common Rational Knowledge of Morality to the Philosophical," Immanuel Kant, 1785.
...nothing = moral + (good - evil) or moral + (evil - good)?
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